So someone moved your Silverlight cheese? Go and get some HTML5 cheese! Before WPF/E & Avalon were anything more than vapourware, W3C had the SVG standard(Scallable Vector Graphics) for 2D vector graphics over the web. Using Javascript, you could manipulate 2D animations & tranforms. You can embed SVG in HTML5 today. Yeah, its like going back to Silverlight 1.0, but you just have to deal with it! Embrace change. SVG Features · Designed for 2D graphics - display vector graphics & text ......

Programming for Metro Metro is the future http://zd.net/rnT9VZ .NET is for old apps. WinRT replaces WPF & WCF. XAML is big. There were no Silverlight sessions. HTML 5 and Javascript ( Blend for HTML) are back in fashion – I wont dwell on this because web apps are (inconsistently) simplistic in concept and over-complex in development. Yes, all those XAML skills are portable, Silverlight (RIP) apps can run as Metro apps with a bit of fidgeting with namespaces – you just need to know what controls ......

Introduction · CQL is a SQL-like language (SELECT..FROM..WHERE) for static analysis of .NET code. · It is a nice complement to code contracts, & is usable in unit tests. If you've ever looked at creating custom FxCop rules using the archaic and undocumented Introspection API (see http://www.binarycoder.net/... ), then you will appreciate the elegant CQL syntax for static analysis! · supported by NDepend http://www.NDepend.com How It Works · Lets dive into a contrived example ......